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First stop for locating more than
150,000 short stories!
For the reader seeking short fiction
by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the
quintessential example of a particular genre, or the
student researching the body of work of a literary
figure, this is a one-of-a-kind tool. Short Story
Index Retrospective brings your library valuable
data you’ll find in few other single reference
sources—bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short
stories published over 150 years—content from the
acclaimed Short Story Index back to its beginning in
1915. |
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Cites short stories published from the 1830s to the
1980s
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Sources include some 350 periodicals and collections of
short stories
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Search by author, title, keyword, source, date, and
subject
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Entries feature links to other works by the author and
other stories in the source
collection
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In-depth subject indexing
helps you find stories by :
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Topics and themes (e.g. Fathers and
daughters, Football, End of the world)
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Locales where the story takes place, cities,
states, regions, countries (e.g. India,
Southern States, Rocky Mountains)
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Genre (e.g. Dialect stories, Legends and
folk tales, Science fiction)
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People (Names of
individuals, peoples, and professions that
the stories are about, e.g. Leonardo da
Vinci, Apache Indians, Dentists)
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Detailed Bibliographic
Information to Help You Locate Short Stories,
Plus WilsonWeb Tools to Get them Faster
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Library holdings indicator, linked to your
OPAC, lets users know if they'll find cited
publications on your shelves.
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WilsonLink Open-URL
technology links to full text articles on
any of your library’s reference databases
that are OpenURL compliant.
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What journals are included
in Short Story Index?
Short Story Index is
essentially a book index. Anthologies and
collections of short stories (books) are
analyzed as they are published, and those
records are added to the database throughout the
year. At the end of every year, in preparation
for the annual print volume, all the short
stories from periodicals that have been indexed
that year in Wilson’s Humanities Index and
Readers’ Guide are brought in to the database as
well. This is on the item level rather than the
journal level. There are no specific journals
analyzed for short stories.
To find all the journals from
which at least one short story has been included
in Short Story Index, go to the Browse display
in Short Story Index and search for “A” in
“Journal Name”. There you will see a list of
journals, each followed by the number of
postings. Some journals have published only a
few short stories over the years. Others have
published many. |
Also available!
Short Story Index
Locate more than 96,000 stories, including the full
text of more than 3,400 stories
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Combine
with Short Story Index Retrospective and
search stories from the 1830s through the present
day
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Indexes
short stories published in more than 4,200
collections and anthologies, plus stories that
appear in periodicals!
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Includes
coverage of over 150 of the periodicals indexed by
Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and
Humanities Index.
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Search
by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary
technique, source, or any combination.
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Retrospective coverage back to 1984.
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Database
grows by 4,000 records each year.
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Up-to-date subject headings keep pace with
contemporary topics of interest.
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Free
30-day trials!
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